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...Magic Button On top of its Super NightShot feature for low light, Sony's DCR-HC32 (about $400) has an "easy" button that switches the cam into automatic mode...
...Looking Sharp For about $300, Canon's ZR100 includes a wide-screen recording mode and an advanced optical zoom for effective close...
...Acer's continued profitability is not assured. The company posted earnings of $219.7 million last year but its operating margin was a knife-edged 1.7%, compared with Dell's 8.6%. Yet Wang and Lanci are in expansion mode, investing in marketing and distribution networks in China and the U.S. The goal is to become one of the top three PC sellers by 2008. Even Shih seems impressed. "[Wang] has helped place Acer on the right track," Shih says,"and onto a steady and growing momentum." High praise from the man who once thought there was nowhere for his company...
...Gaudens embodied it in sculpture, as surely as the Roeblings did in engineering, Louis Comfort Tiffany in décor or McKim, Mead and White in architecture. Today portrait sculpture is dead, and the photo opportunity reigns. But Saint-Gaudens lived in an age when sculpture was thought the supreme mode of official commemoration, and the types he created are still very much with us. Our iconic sense of Abraham Lincoln as statesman, seamed, grave and erect, was created as much by Saint-Gaudens' bronzes as by Mathew Brady's photos. Our image of the repressive, striding Puritan with Bible, cloak...
...ticking off a laundry list. "The mission computer knows the ordnance you've got onboard. It knows bomb ballistics and range. The information comes on the HUD with a symbol--a little diamond over the target, just like an Atari video game. In the CCIP [continuously computed impact point] mode, your job is to put the diamond over the target, hit the pickle button and bombs come off. And we hit. Well, within...